Par . We're not sure boy bands ever really went out of style, but their music is certainly here to stay! This fun medley features a mix of older classics as well as newer chartbusters. Includes: Dynamite (BTS), Everybody (Backstreet Boys), I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys), What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction), and I'll Be There (Jackson 5). / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Arr. Lorenzo Bocci. The Little Drummer Boy (L’enfant au tambour) est un noël dont la mélodie est connue des petits et des grands. Le texte anglais raconte l’histoire d’un petit garçon pauvre venu à la crèche de Bethléem pour adorer l’Enfant Jésus. Il n’a rien d’autre à lui offrir que son petit tambour. The Little Drummer Boy incarne parfaitement l’esprit de Noël. La musique exprime l’idée que nous avons tous quelque chose à offrir : une pensée, un sourire, un air de musique. . . / Niveau : 2.5 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Spirited rhythms underpin three great Old West songs in Stephen Bulla’s Along Came the Cowboys. You’ll find a bonanza of great teaching tools in this Western extravaganza: phrase extensions, style contrasts, dynamic and articulation considerations, rhythmic counterpoint, and much more. Your young musicians will really enjoy playing music that employs the types of mechanisms standardised by decades of cowboy movie underscoring. This is something your students can definitely get into! What a great supporting assignment to have your students try to find examples of comparable musical treatments on their movie videos and DVDs. / Niveau : 2.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Spirited rhythms underpin three great Old West songs in Stephen Bulla’s Along Came the Cowboys. You’ll find a bonanza of great teaching tools in this Western extravaganza: phrase extensions, style contrasts, dynamic and articulation considerations, rhythmic counterpoint, and much more. Your young musicians will really enjoy playing music that employs the types of mechanisms standardised by decades of cowboy movie underscoring. This is something your students can definitely get into! What a great supporting assignment to have your students try to find examples of comparable musical treatments on their movie videos and DVDs. / Niveau : 2.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON / DOSS THOMAS (Arr.). Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn?t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant and his own organ and piano studies, he first worked as organist in St. Florian, then from 1855 as cathedral organist in Linz. Introduced to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, he discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth. In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory; ten years later court organist; and in 1891 finally honorary doctor of the University of Vienna. He was considered an important organ virtuoso of his era, but had to wait a long time for recognition as a composer. It was not until Symphony No.7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio written under the effects of Wagner's death, that he achieved the recognition he had hoped for, even if he was reluctant to accept it given his inclination towards scepticism and self-criticism. Anton Bruckner was a loner who did not want to follow a particular school or doctrine. He composed numerous sacred vocal works, such as his three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854), the Te Deum (1881-84) and numerous motets. As a symphonic composer, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, tending to revise completed versions several times over. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but in fact were merely exceptionally bold for the tonal language of their time, uniting traditions from Beethoven through Wagner to folk music, on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism. Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colourful harmony in the earlier works, which is in places aligned with Franz Schubert (changes between major and minor; and movements in thirds). Later works are characterised by many components which, in addition to the expanded stature of the movements, include above all a sense of the instrumentation as an outward phenomenon and the harmony as a compositional feature that works more internally. Some aspects of Bruckner's work are the result of his long period of study, which familiarised him not only with the tradition of his craft, but also gave him insights into the 'modernity' of his time in such composers as Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz. From this developed his personal standpoint, which always pursues the connection between the old and the new. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

as performed by Amy Winehouse. Par PAYNE / DAVID MCCABE / ABIGAIL HARDING / BOYAN CHO. Une seule année s’est écoulée entre la sortie de la chanson Valerie, interprétée par le groupe de rock anglais The Zutons, qui eu beaucoup de succès au Royaume-Uni, et la reprise de Mark Ronson et Amy Winehouse. Plus funky, plus optimiste et typiquement plus «winehousienne», cette version soul a rapidement conquis les hit-parades de nombreux pays. L’arrangement de Peter Kleine Schaars rend hommage à la grande chanteuse décédée en 2011, avec ce titre récréatif et pétillant de fraîcheur ! / Niveau : 2.5 / Pop and rock / Date parution : 1905-07-04/ Recueil / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par HAIRSTON JESTER. This upbeat song with its calypso rhythm and tropical melody brings a happy feeling to the holiday season. This arrangement of the enduring hit song composed by Jester Hairston, and made famous by Harry Belafonte, is an easy work up, and will certainly provide a nice programming contrast to your holiday concert. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Répertoire / Concert Band

In some European Christmas traditions, Saint Nick (Santa Claus) does not work alone. He travels with the 'Krampus,' a 'Christmas Devil' who doles out punishment to bad boys and girls on Christmas Eve. This work serves as a darkly delightful Christmas piece, intended to educate, entertain, and creep out your audience. The poem 'Beware the Krampus' (written by the composer) helps frame the piece as familiar carols 'The Ukranian Bell Carol,' 'Up on the Housetop,' 'Jolly Old St. Nicholas,' and other holiday favorites are distorted. (4:50) / Concert Band

as performed by Culture Club. David Bowie fit entrer l’androgynie et la mode dans le rock. Encouragé par ce modèle flamboyant, George Alan O'Dowd s’invente un personnage troublant au style singulier : Boy George. Dans la foulée, il fonde le groupe, Culture Club, qui balayera les hit-parades mondiaux avec des tubes comme Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?, Church of The Poison Mind, It’s a Miracle et l’incontournable Karma Chameleon, qui fera de Boy George, une superstar. / Niveau : 3 / Pop and rock / Recueil / Concert Band ou Harmonie

from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo. Par COPLAND AARON. Buckaroo Holiday est un des quatre tableaux du célèbre ballet Rodeo du père de la musique américaine Aaron Copland (1900-1990). Écrit en 1942 pour la chorégraphe Agnès de Mille, Copland en réalisera une suite pour orchestre autour de quatre épisodes dansés qu’il intitulera Four Dance Episodes. On y retrouve le ton narratif du ballet. Rodeo a pour thème une histoire d’amour drôle. Une jeune vachère tente d’attirer l’attention du maître-vacher en réalisant toute une série d’actions valeureuses, mais en vain. Elle finira cependant par gagner son coeur en se rendant à une soirée dansante, vêtue d’une superbe robe rouge. Tout est bien qui finitbien. Buckaroo Holiday est le premier mouvement de la suite pour orchestre. Robuste et puissant, avec quelques passages mélodieux et lyriques, ce premier épisode évolue sur de nombreux rythmes syncopés et évoque avec justesse la vie du cow-boy (ou buckaroo - terme dérivé de l’espagnol vaquero signifiant « vacher »). Cette excellente transcription pour Orchestre d’Harmonie a été réalisée par Ed Keeley. Elle reste parfaitement fidèle à la version originale. / Niveau : 4 / Classique / Date parution : 1905-06-29/ Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie